What does your playing LOOK like?

[rashayritto]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

i dont really care what my playing looks like. i move however the music makes me want to move, its fun as ****

[LesStrat]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

Vai is an outstanding guitarist, but I´d personally rather listen to EVH or Satch or some other guy that sounds like he´s about to lose control

Then you should LOVE my music!

[korovamilkdud]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

Hmmm....I can put this a couple different ways.

One is, it all comes from LISTENING. You listen to the music as you play it, and you suddenly find it's not just your hands and fingers moving anymore. With me it's so unconscious. It just happens. Okay, I admit it, I have a couple "stage moves" but for the most part, it feels like either my guitar comes alive or I do, and the guitar comes along for the ride.

The other way to put it is how my girlfriend so eloquently described from an outsider's point of view...

"I like it when you **** your guitar".

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

Showmanship in a live band is definitely an asset. If you're an orchestra in a pit and you're just providing atmosphere or the soundtrack to what's going on onstage, then it doesn't matter.

If you're on the stage, it matters. People should be there to see you, not just hear you, and you should give them something to see. You don't need to set your pants on fire or climb your amp, but play the music like it means something to you. Rock out like you did when you used to play air guitar to everything.

Otherwise you're a human jukebox, just with fewer songs and less flash.

[FrankyBoy]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

I always try to play like my favorite guitarists. That way I feel very cool and it make me smile to think I could be playing in front of thousands of people. I'm more in to this kind of music and guitar playing I think is cool looks like this:



For me, it's more in the attitude than anything else.

[cream123]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

I don't if that is a serious post or not...so well exucuted

[StrangeSound]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

One word: Slick B-)

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

Perhaps I'll post a vid up later.

[Iron Horse]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

If I'd post one, it would be X-rated.



That has nothing to do with clothing, BTW.

[sosomething]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

summat leik this:




though I gowts help as well

[B2D]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

summat leik this:

Cell phone bulge FTW!

[sosomething]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

That's my flat, wide, rectangular penis.

[Gearjoneser]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

That's my flat, wide, rectangular penis.

My vibe is pretty close to how Marc Ford is.

[tone4days]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

when i practice, i go for elegant hand / arm motion ... good positioning and technique ... posture, etc ... all the mechanics ...

then, when i perform ... i try not to think too hard about that stuff ... just like my note choice, i try to let the good stuff i practice seep in without forcing it ...

i know i play way better when i am more elegant ... i get better control of my vibrato that way (instead of spastic strangling) .. my sweeps are more clean and clear ... my legato has more dynamics and my up strokes are not weak ... also, i can more effortlessly go back and forth between chord (fragments) and single notes ...

when i am sloppy, i suppose i could kid myself into believing i am getting more 'vibe' but if i am being self honest, it seriously reduces my creative dynamic range ... i can do gritty rock blues riffage, but nothing very expansive

[Wattage]

Re: What does your playing LOOK like?

Hard to really look cool when ducking cue balls and plastic cup hockey pucks but I'd like to look like Johnny Ramone if I could.